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A. SIEBERT.

HAND STAMP- No. 469,277. Patented Feb. 23, 1892..

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UNITED STATES PATENT @rrrcn.

ALFRED SIEBERT, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

HAN D-STAM P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettersv Patent No. 469,277, dated February 23, 1892.

Application filed February 11, 1889. Serial No. 299 378. (No model.)

To etZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED SIEBERT, of the city and county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Hand-Stamps, of which the following is a specification.

My stamp may have a handle for the application of the force directly, or it may be connected by levers or otherwise to any suitable mechanism for operating it. I will show it with a simple handle. There are removable types and means for fastening and liberating them. I will show a screw. I finish the periphery of the main portion to receive an obliquely-mounted ring, and I provide such a ring with recesses for type and screws or other convenient means for holding such, distributed equally or unequally around the periphery. The ring is so placed and the types are so arranged therein that only one of the words or devices mounted in the oblique ring will be presented at any one time to receive the ink and to effect the stamping. The others all remain idle. The ring is partially revolved to carry any word out of use and to bring another one into the place for printing. The upper or back face of the ring is marked with the same word as the types or other printing device on the face or with some other word or number which the operator should learn. This greatly aids in setting the ring to print the required word or device. There is, furthermore, a notch on the upper face of the ring corresponding to each word. This is engaged by a spring carried on the main part. It insures that the ring when once adjusted shall remain firmly in the required position until it is intentionally shifted.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification and represent What I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where they occur.

A is the main body of the stamp, certain portions being designated when necessary by supernumerals, as A. The lower face A is recessed to receive one or more series of re movable types a. They are confined and released at will by a screw or screws B. A portion A of its periphery is turned or otherwise produced in a circle standing oblique to the plane of the faces of the types a and consequently standing oblique to the paper or other surface upon which the stamp is to be used. The periphery A is grooved, as shown. A follower O is screwed upon the correspondingly-inclined surface above and forms a removable portion of the main body. The portion A of the main body, with the follower 0, forms a bearing for a ring D, which is capable of being shifted around. Its lower face is recessed and receives removable types cl, which are secured by screws E. Its upper face is notched, as indicated by d. A looking-spring G, mounted on the main body, is adapted to engage in the notches successively as they are presented under it and to hold the ring firmly in the position to allow the corresponding type cl to produce its impression by the side of and jointly with the types a. The notches cl should be beveled, so that when sufficient force is applied, tending to turn the ring D, the spring will yield of itself and allow the ring to be turned; but the sides should be sufficiently steep and the spring should have sufficient force to hold the ring reliably in place against the slight disturbin g forces to which it will be subjected when in use.

My ring may be shifted with great facility to change the words which are printedalongside of the removable types. Thus if the latter carry the day the removable ring may carry the words Shipped, Entered, Seen, Answered, Paid, Referred, Attended to, or the like. Either of these may be brought into position for Work'by a single simple movement. The oblique position allows only one of the words to come into use at any one time.

Modifications may be made without departing from the principle or sacrificing the ad= vantages of the invention. I can print other devices than words by means of my ring D. The devices cl to effect the printing may be engraved or otherwise produced on the lower face of the ring D, instead of employing removable types. In such case the screws E may of course be omitted. The obliquity of the bearing-surface A and of the rings 0 and D allows a large ring D to be used without coming in the way of the hand or necessitating any material increase in the height of the device. I can use a greater or less number of words or other devices on the ring D.

Parts of the invention can be used without the whole. The arrangement allows movable type to be used in the main part A; but the printing devices a may be of rubber or other suitable material and may, if preferred, be formed in one piece with the body A, or attached immovably thereto, if preferred.

I do not claim the obliquely-mounted ring, except when provided, as shoWn,-witl1 means for holding it in predetermined position.

I disclaim the combination,in a hand-stamp, of a ring mounted on an oblique bearing-surface and carrying printing devices, either of which may be brought instantly into position for use with a main body, and printing devices fixed therein and arranged for joint operation.

I claim as my in vention In a hand-stamp, the notched ring D 61, mounted on the oblique bearing-surfaces A C and carrying printing devices d, in combination with the main bodyA and printing devices 64 carried therein, and with the locking-spring G, all arranged to serve substanstantially as herein specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, at New York city, this 1st day of February, 1889, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALFRED SIEBER'P.

Witnesses:

GEO. F. MEYER, Louis N. GIRARD. 

